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Podcast: Speculative Sandbox
Episode: [REWIND] Chasing Utopia: The Horrors of Perfection
Description: [Originally published April 6, 2022.] Thomas More coined the term "Utopia" in his 1516 book of the same name, but is it really the ideal place to live? Author Jacob Devlin joins Vickie Lan in a discussion about fictional utopian societies, what makes them wonderful at first glance, and what makes them terrifying once you read between the lines.Â
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